IN PERSON: How Apache Kafka can power AI applications

Join us for our AI focused meetup! You'll learn all about how to use Apache Kafka in data intensive AI applications and a bunch more.

Date and Time: 🗓️ Tuesday 25th February, ⏰ 18:00 - 20:30 PM 🕘
Venue: Lacon House, London WC1X 8NL, United Kingdom
Attending Brands: OSO, Hivemind, Lenses

Schedule:
18:00: Doors Open
18:00 - 18:30: Food, drinks, networking
18:30 - 19:00: "Streaming Data Platforms - the convergence of micro services and data lakehouses" - Erik Schmiegelow ( CEO, Hivemind Technologies)
19:00 - 19:30: “K2K - making a Universal Kafka Replicator - (Adamos Loizou is Head of Product at Lenses and Carlos Teixeira is a Software Engineer at Lenses)
19:30- 20:30pm: Additional Q&A, Networking

🎙️ ~Talk 1~
Talk Title: Streaming Data Platforms - the convergence of micro services and data lakehouses

Summary: The data space is experiencing a generational shift from classic batch to near real time data products, driven by business demand and AI use cases. We explore what fundamental architectural changes are required and how to transition from data lakes to streaming streams data platforms

🗣️ Speaker 1: Erik is a director and co-founder of Hivemind Technologies, a technology consultancy
focussed on cloud and data engineering with functional programming and Infrastructure as
Code. Prior to Hivemind, Erik founded several companies and worked in finance, advertising and industrial sectors building scalable distributed software platforms.

🎙️ ~Talk 2~
Talk Title: K2K - making a Universal Kafka Replicator - Lenses

Summary: Join us as the Lenses dev team shares the story behind building K2K, our new tool for Kafka replication and migration. We'll dive into why we made certain design choices, the technical challenges we had to tackle (spoiler: there were plenty), and what K2K can do right now. Plus, we'll give you a peek at where we're headed and what features we're dreaming up for the future. It's a behind-the-scenes look at turning a complex problem into a practical solution

🗣️ Speaker 1: Adamos Loizou is Head of Product at [Lenses.io](http://lenses.io/)
He's been a software engineer for 15+ years. One day, after getting angry at the screen for debugging Kafka Streams, he went to a meetup. He saw an awesome tool that fixed his problem. That tool was Lenses. He lives in London, UK, wears a beanie and has recently switched his mustache for a beard.

🗣️ Speaker 1: Carlos Teixeira is a Software Engineer at [Lenses.io](http://lenses.io/), based in Porto, Portugal. He has experience working with Kafka and enjoys solving problems in distributed systems, with a particular interest in programming with Scala and exploring the intricacies of concurrency.